Chief amongst the many findings of the report was that of " PLA Unit 61398", a military building in Shanghai's Pudong neighborhood that seems to be the epicenter of attacks on Western institutions and businesses.

“We were stopped pretty promptly from filming. We were briefly detained by the military personnel on the gates, taken inside the base and they refused to let us go until we had agreed to surrender our tape.

“The Reuters news agencies were able to pick up some footage, and you can see form those pictures that this is a pretty nondescript building.

“Certainly it doesn’t look likely to be the nerve centre of one of the most effective and prolific cyber warfare operations ever mounted...”